Alex Flinn Quotes
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
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When I'm filming, I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.
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It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.
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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
